hamlets defeat

Hamlet is continuously wanting to do something but does nothing. He is forced to make decisions based on his moral and religious beliefs. Hamlet is as little of the hero as a man can be. He is incapable of action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion when he has no time to reflect. At other times, when he is bound to act, he remains puzzled, undecided, and skeptical. He …

…never have died. But they all died because of his weakness of indecisiveness and death. Obviously Hamlet was an intellectual being who did not have the nerve to carry out a revenge for the father he loved. There are many unanswered questions to this play, and it will always be controversial. Hamlet's ruling passion is to think, not to act: and any vague pretext that flatters his propensity instantly diverts him from his previous purposes.